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CASE REPORT article

Front. Med.
Sec. Hepatobiliary Diseases
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1453533
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Hepatobiliary Diseases View all 5 articles

Case Report: Brain infarction following percutaneous drainage of a liver abscess post-chemotherapy for pancreatic head cancer

Provisionally accepted
Wan Qiu Deng Wan Qiu Deng *Bo Wei Bo Wei Zheng-Yan Li Zheng-Yan Li Kai Liu Kai Liu
  • West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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    Bacterial liver abscesses commonly occur in patients with immune deficiencies such as diabetes, post-chemotherapy, or post-immunosuppressive the rapy. The recommended treatment for liver abscesses exceeding 5cm in a diam eter is anti-infection therapy combined with percutaneous catheter drainage. Co mplications may include local spread to adjacent tissues or organs and thromb osis of the liver and portal veins. Rare hematogenous spread to distant sites, s uch as endophthalmitis and central nervous system embolism, have been report ed, though such complications are uncommon post-drainage. This case report d etails a patient who suffered a brain infarction shortly after percutaneous drain age of a large liver abscess.

    Keywords: chemotherapy, Liver Abscess, Percutaneous drainage, Brain Infarction, Pancreatic head cancer

    Received: 23 Jun 2024; Accepted: 18 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Deng, Wei, Li and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Wan Qiu Deng, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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